I heavily advise AGAINST using this for anything apart from OS level file spam (.DS_Store etc).
We spent a good part of a day rebuilding a repo after a junior dev. left, when we found out they'd misused global gitignore and hadn't commited several important files due to an ignore they had set for a seperate project.
Lessons learnt. Ensure new devs don't use it, and code review on another machine than theirs...
We spent a good part of a day rebuilding a repo after a junior dev. left, when we found out they'd misused global gitignore and hadn't commited several important files due to an ignore they had set for a seperate project.
Lessons learnt. Ensure new devs don't use it, and code review on another machine than theirs...